For instance, the Red Shirts are credited with helping elect Wade Hampton as governor in South Carolina. Their primary targets are African Americans, Hispanics, Jews, [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, [45] Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Catholics, as well as immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, [46] [47] [48] [49] Muslims, [50] [51] [52] atheists, [29] [30] [31] [32] and abortion providers. Newman says Black "disliked the Catholic Church as an institution" and gave over 100 anti-Catholic speeches to KKK meetings across Alabama in his 1926 election campaign. It presented itself as a fraternal, nativist and strenuously patriotic organization; and its leaders emphasized support for vigorous enforcement of Prohibition laws. These mass parades became another hallmark of the new Klan that had not existed in the original Reconstruction-era organization.

Sexy soldiers” and civilians in military fatigues are not too nice for the people who served our country. J. Cash, in his 1941 book The Mind of the South characterized the second Klan as "anti-Negro, anti-Alien, anti-Red, anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anti-Darwin, anti-Modern, anti-Liberal, Fundamentalist, vastly Moral, [and] militantly Protestant.

For example, if you identify as a white person, take care to avoid stereotyping any other cultures that aren't yours, even if you intend to pay homage to a specific person. Better yet, avoid the possibility of shame and embarrassment by choosing something not so controversial.

Edgar Hoover, appeared more concerned about Communist links to civil rights activists than about controlling Klan excesses against citizens. The Klan refused to voluntarily dissolve after the 1871 Klan Act, so President Grant issued a suspension of habeas corpus and stationed federal troops in nine South Carolina counties by invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807.Social historian Leonard Moore titled his monograph Citizen Klansmen (1997) and contrasted the intolerant rhetoric of the group's leaders with the actions of most of the membership. Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks and conical hats, designed to be terrifying and to hide their identities. At its peak in the mid-1920s, the organization's membership ranged from three to eight million members. Davis was already leading the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

If you do go as a specific person, avoid figures of religious or cultural significance to a particular group to which you do not belong. She also teaches journalism as an adjunct professor at New York University's School of Professional Studies and creative nonfiction at the Muse Writing Center, and coaches with the New York Writing Room. It ruled that Congress's power under the Fourteenth Amendment did not include the right to regulate against private conspiracies. Landry Parish had a registered Republican majority of 1,071, after the murders, no Republicans voted in the fall elections. At its peak, claimed Klan membership exceeded four million and comprised 20% of the adult white male population in many broad geographic regions, and 40% in some areas.It used K-words which were similar to those used by the first Klan, while adding cross burnings and mass parades to intimidate others. Klan chapters promoted white supremacy and spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement in resistance to Reconstruction. Dressing up in fun Halloween costumes, eating all the candy you can um "borrow" from the kids, carving a pumpkin and then crossing your fingers the squirrels don't eat it before the trick-or-treaters come — what's not to like? They also argue that the Klan leadership focused more intently on monetizing the organization during this period than fulfilling the political goals of the organization.